Thai Cave kids | All 12 boys and coach rescued from cave | visiting United

I cannot imagine how that teacher is feeling. Obviously he’s taking the blame for it but it’s naive ignorance on his part. As things stand, he’s living an absolute nightmare and is likely to spend his final moments coming to terms with the horrendous responsibility. Just tragic.
 
I'm guessing they are gonna try the dive? Probably accompany each kid with 2 or 3 divers.
 
I cannot imagine how that teacher is feeling. Obviously he’s taking the blame for it but it’s naive ignorance on his part. As things stand, he’s living an absolute nightmare and is likely to spend his final moments coming to terms with the horrendous responsibility. Just tragic.

I may have read incorrectly but it seemed the Teacher went in to rescue the kids at first, ending getting trapped along them.
 
Still delayed or did I miss something?
Still delayed -

15:45

Jacob Goldberg is at the scene of the rescue site waiting for the press conference to begin along with reporters from around the world who have assembled in anticipation of the interior minister’s announcement.

Crowds of police officers are scurrying back and forth across the rescue camp like something is about to happen. A generator hums in the background. A few drops of rain are falling.

Spotlights shine on the platform where the interior minister is expected to make an announcement. Reporters are lingering around the platform. We’ve been waiting for hours.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...clouds-could-force-quick-rescue-decision-live
 
"we've been waiting for hours"

It's almost like there's more pressing things going on than keeping the media updated.
 
"we've been waiting for hours"

It's almost like there's more pressing things going on than keeping the media updated.
Yeah I was thinking the same at first but -

A journalist at the rescue site wears a t-shirt saying ‘Journalism is not a crime’.

Reporters Without Borders recently condemned the Thai junta’s crackdown on news and information since the military coup in 2014.

It has urged the international community to take a firmer line with the regime, which has “stepped up online censorship and prosecutions of media outlets in recent months”.

According to Freedom House, Thailand has one of the least free medias in the world with authorities banning hundreds of sites in the past four years.
I image there's rightly concern over how open the government is being on this situation.
 
Didn't know bird's nests collectors was a thing. Let alone that they could be usefull in a life or death situation.

The greatest minds and bodies on their niche fields are gathered to try and save those people from a freakingly unique situation. It's a thriller movie in real time. It's like Apollo 13 when those NASA dudes started making puzzles, against the clock, with replicas of the equipment on board.

feck, I so want a happy ending to this, but the diver's death has curbed my hopes. Doesn't look good at all.
 
Didn't know bird's nests collectors was a thing. Let alone that they could be usefull in a life or death situation.

The greatest minds and bodies on their niche fields are gathered to try and save those people from a freakingly unique situation. It's a thriller movie in real time. It's like Apollo 13 when those NASA dudes started making puzzles, against the clock, with replicas of the equipment on board.

feck, I so want a happy ending to this, but the diver's death has curbed my hopes. Doesn't look good at all.
 
Didn't know bird's nests collectors was a thing. Let alone that they could be usefull in a life or death situation.

The greatest minds and bodies on their niche fields are gathered to try and save those people from a freakingly unique situation. It's a thriller movie in real time. It's like Apollo 13 when those NASA dudes started making puzzles, against the clock, with replicas of the equipment on board.

feck, I so want a happy ending to this, but the diver's death has curbed my hopes. Doesn't look good at all.
Im very much hoping this ends well and they make a nice film out of it in the future.
 
I don't see how they can get the kids out there without them panicking the second something goes wrong, its a huge ask for anyone, let alone kids. Could easily end up killing the divers too.
 
Still delayed or did I miss something?

Has just started. Chiang Rai Governer speaking, opening comments: "The boys entered through the front of the cave, they will come out through the front.”
 
This is going to be a movie and hopefully it has a happy ending. What a brave group of people they are helping these kids.
 
It sounds like they're still testing the evacuation plan - the kit, the route, any handovers, the stops - but they're planning to bring them out through the existing access route.
 
Governor says they haven't yet decided on the exact plan to follow. Says that when they do it will need to be tested before it's carried out. Says the kids have already been taught to dive but that they are trying to take the most minimal risk - hence the delay. Also says rescuers are very worried by the weather forecasts and the air situation in the cave.

Seems like rain will be the precursor to putting plans into effect. Governor says "if it rains, we will try to bring the boys out." Also looks like supplying them and keeping them there for the rest of monsoon season is no longer being considered as an option. Apparently the governor laughed when the suggestion was put to him.

Edit: says there is no chance of any of them being extracted today (I think it's past midnight in Thailand, so maybe tomorrow for us)
 
I think some will die on the way out, and even then I'd be surprised if they get many out.
 
Yes, the guy on the conference laughed it off when asked if they could wait for the monsoon season to end (i.e about 4 months).
Yeah that's certainly an awful option. What's the chance of these kids getting PTSD if they succeed with diving?
 
Cant they get a Bigelow expandable module down there along with some oxygen scrubbers and make an inflatable submarine base station

Granted that probably wouldn't work
 
BBC headline quoting the officials says... Boys "can walk but can't dive yet"

I sure fecking hope they can walk, they're not toddlers. And if they mean that they are fit to walk, then if that's becoming debatable how the feck are they expected to do a 6-7hr long diving session towards freedom.

Did that message get lost in translation a bit or am I reading too much into this. If I was a parent I'd be concerned by reading this.
 
Is frightening that they only have the option to take them out because it will rain tomorrow. Or is what I understood?

I hope I am wrong but I think it will be a disaster if a elite diver just died...

If I would be inside the cave and aware of the situation, I would ask for a gun and shoot my head (yes, I am a coward). Dying underwater is one of the kind of deaths that scare me the most
 
Ask Neymar if he could help.


Anyway Elon Musk offering help now
 
Really praying for those kids. Not to anyone in particular just been on my mind often. Hope they make it out well and sound.
 
Wasnt James Cameron's Sanctum movie about this type of thing? Remembering that fecking movie now makes me hope none of those kids need to dive
 
This seems like a good article on the current state of affairs as of yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/world/asia/thai-cave-rescue-divers.html

Main challenges of extraction:
  • 11 hour round trip, 6 hours there, 5 hours back. Probably a lot slower with each child.
  • 1 mile section nearest to the boys mostly flooded, but with occasional air pockets.
  • Longest section without air pockets approximately 400m, but very slow going.
  • Many obstacles including dead end passages. Zero visibility. Some gaps as narrow as 2 x 2.5' (60 x 75cm) for up to 15m in length.
  • Flooding is fed by multiple water sources = unpredictable, competing currents. These currents will worsen if and when it rains.
  • Three of the group (including the coach) reported by the local governor as getting weaker.
 
Is frightening that they only have the option to take them out because it will rain tomorrow. Or is what I understood?

I hope I am wrong but I think it will be a disaster if a elite diver just died...

If I would be inside the cave and aware of the situation, I would ask for a gun and shoot my head (yes, I am a coward). Dying underwater is one of the kind of deaths that scare me the most
:lol: I'm sorry but this made me laugh.

I'm the same, I'm terrified of drowning.